horticultural symbols
HelenAA
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I've got a simple flower bed map in mind but having looked at CSAUC, Dunjinni and Bogie I'm at a loss as to whether it's worth trying. I know there's always clipart but flowers will tend to be cartoony. Has anyone any other ideas? I'm thinking more in terms of low growing shrubs and things like primroses and bluebells.
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Last time I looked a few years ago there were free online apps that could help plan your garden. Maybe one of those might help?
thanks Sue..
It's been 13 years since I ever had a garden to plan. They were around back then, but I don't know about now.
It depends what sort of reality you need regarding the flowers and plants. For instance, when I drew some of the Faerie City of Embra maps for the Community Atlas, I used varicolor versions of the tree symbols in the style I was using, sometimes at a much reduced size. This post shows some of what I did, and the idea was really just to give an impression of flowers and flower beds, rather than anything specific.
Those may be too cartoony for what you're needing, I appreciate, but you may get better results with a different drawing style, assuming it has vegetation available as varicolor symbols.
As Sue said, there are also garden planning symbols available online, some free for non-commercial use (though watch out for caveats if you're wanting to use the maps beyond yourself, just in case). Many of those are cartoony, and often side-on, but I did find some top-down versions in a quick check as well. Searches using phrases like "garden planning icons", "architectural garden symbols", "landscape garden design icons" should get you some useful results, based on what I spotted.
I’m just doing a rough layout - thanks Sue for the sand, by the way - and it is just for fun after the Narnia map. The only audience for my maps are the people on the forum, anyhow, but thanks for the caution as well as suggestions for searches, Wyvern.
Am I bonkers to be toying with doing something extensive for another Narnian map, that is the entire voyage of the Dawn Treader???
If you have the annual from 2018, the Japanese Temple annual has bushes with varicolor flowers that if you set on a SYMBOLS LOW sheet could be a flower bed. And with other symbol sets, I have taken varicolor bushes, changed the color to something bright, and reduced them to look like flowers (the weeds from Forest Trail make good leaves below the flowers), or even placed them on normal sized green bushes to make rose bushes.
I love that you are mapping all of the Narnia books.
Am I bonkers to be toying with doing something extensive for another Narnian map, that is the entire voyage of the Dawn Treader???
I wouldn't say so, although it is tricky trying to fit it together coherently, because of the lack of distances and directions in the book. I did think about something on these lines a long time ago, but never completed it.
You can abstract both distances and directions, of course, or indeed condense and change them, much as a medieval cartographer might have done, if holding with a Pauline Baynes overall map feel.
I have realised that the total map will either be quite tall and narrow or very long and thin, but I’m going to need to mix symbols and fills. I suspect I’ll be mapping left to right, extending the width as I need it -- assuming I finish it!